Daughter with $15K leadership award submitted 34 ACT Math II 780
My D did submit (35 ACT, 4.0 UW gpa, and lots of leadership) and was awarded the Trustee Scholarship. She did visit campus and interview, though–she expressed a lot of interest.
First, congratulations to all who were accepted. I’m an alum, and so is my oldest daughter. Youngest just accepted yesterday, but not sure she will go. For any parent or student on the fence - believe the acceptance letter when it says that MHC will change your life - it changed mine, it changed my daughter’s. Good luck to all!
My D did not submit her 30 ACT (superscore 31) but she did list all of the scores on her common app. She got the leadership award. So, not 100% correlation between scores and scholarships. She had a 3.8UW/4.2W, and she did a visit and interview. Lots of EC involvement, mostly in dance and theater.
To anyone reading this thread-do not make assumptions about stats alone. It is more about the whole picture.
@scaredaboutthefuture - I agree it may be more than stats. My D earned the GS Gold award-presidential service for 4 years (gold) over 500 community service hours & some unique EC’s.
My merit award was definitely based on things other than test scores (1970 old SAT) and GPA (4.1 weighted) I am a recruited athlete, visited, had VERY strong interview with current student athlete in similar field of study, family friend who is an alumna wrote my recommendation, also recs from AP Euro teacher, French director swim club, essay demonstrated interest MHC. All this to say they look at you as whole.
@smcirish technically yes, but I think my heart’s decided on MHC after today 
trustee is such a tough offer to turn down! Most of the other schools I am waiting on would be about $30,000 annually, so only paying room and board is incredibly attractive.
Accepted with the Global Perspectives award!!! Did not apply for FA. Congratulations to all you beautiful women <3 <3
Does anyone know if there’s a Group Me chat for accepted students?
There is! if you have a facebook, you can join the facebook group and the link to the groupme is in there, or you can DM me!
Merit scholarships have MUCH more to do with interest shown than stats. I submitted a 35ACT with published research authorship but I treated MHC as a safety school and didn’t interview–just toured. Had I shown interest I probably could have ended up with a Trustee scholarship but I got a lower one.
i just received my physical letter in the mail!! they included a little handwritten note from one of the admissions officers about my essay which was a really nice touch and made me super excited and happy
@hannahb26 omg that’s so sweet! I can’t wait to get mine
@phoria I’m not sure that’s true though – I only did a Skype interview (never been to campus) and I never even thanked my interviewer, and I was awarded trustee with 35ACT/UW4.0/lots of ECs. I feel like there isn’t any one answer as to who receives trustee/the other big merit awards – some are interest, some are stats, and some might be other intangibles of what the admissions committee wants for the incoming class.
Got waitlisted at Mount Holyoke and I’m so devastated. Do you know how many people they admitted off the waitlist last year?
This was the information we received from the Dean of Admissions at Smith and I’m sure it’s true across all the schools. They accept WAY more than they intend to enroll, which is why ED is ever so increasingly attractive to colleges. So, basically there is little need to even create a waiting list. Last year at Smith, they experienced over enrollment and had to limit transfer acceptances later on, in order to meet housing needs of the over-enrolled. That being said, if you are not waiting to hear from any other schools and are not a need-based aid applicant, it doesn’t hurt to email the AO, and say, “Although, I was notified of my waitlist status, if I am fortunate enough to be offered a slot this spring, I will definitely attend” – but only if that is the case. I feel for you; schools waitlisting so many applicants is such a poor policy. If they never pull more than 10-30 people off, they shouldn’t waitlist more than 75.
I don’t understand Reed which waitlists like 500+ students but last year (and I don’t think this was a fluke) they accepted 3 off of it. How is that necessary?
@collegeready21 I’m sorry. The common data set says that last year they offered a waitlist to 785 people, 459 of whom accepted it, and 7 were admitted. Last year MHC also had a yield in excess of what they were expecting, and also had issues with housing because of how many people enrolled. The year before they pulled a smaller waitlist, only 268, and admitted 4. The year before that they pulled a waitlist of 445 and accepted 36 - still small but a much larger percentage.
The upshot of this is that since the college is attempting to decrease its enrollment a bit fewer people are going to be accepted off the waitlist. I think it’s unfair to the students who have to wait on tenterhooks to see if they’re going to be in that tiny percentage of waitlist acceptances. If you were waitlisted you can take your chance with it, but understand it’s probably only going to draw out the hurt more.
well that’s depressing. guess I’ll have to try and get into another school 